Office of the Historian

No. 514.
Mr. Boker to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg, August 19, 1875. (Received Sept. 7, 1875.)
No. 10.]

Sir: Referring to Mr. Schuyler’s dispatch, No. 110, of the 3d of May last, on the subject of the act of Congress of March 3, 1875,* relative to immigration, I have the honor to inclose to you a copy and translation of a note from Baron Jomini, in reply to one addressed to Mr. Strémooakhof by Mr. Schuyler, a copy of which was inclosed in his dispatch.

I have also the honor to inform you that a notice was published in the official newspapers, bringing the provisions of the act of Congress to the knowledge of the public.

I am, & c.,

GEO. H. BOKER.
[Inclosure in No. 10.—Translation.]

Baron Jomini to Mr. Boker.

Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Department of Internal Relations,
St. Petersburg, August 2, (14,) 1875.
No. 6298.]

Mr. Minister: On receipt of the note from the legation of the United States of America, dated April 21 (May 3) last, and numbered 110, the ministry of foreign affairs did not fail to communicate the subject of its contents to the proper authorities.

I have the honor to inform you to-day, according to recent communications on the [Page 1076] part of the ministry of the interior and of the secretarial department of the grand duchy of Finland, that the new law prohibiting the entrance into the United States of America of certain classes of society, has been brought to the knowledge of the public by means of the official journals of the empire and of the grand duchy of Finland.

Accept, Mr. Minister the assurance of my most distinguished consideration.

A. JOMINI.
  1. See Statutes at Large, vol. 18, part 2, page 477.↩